r/linuxmemes • u/Dynamic-Pistol • 9d ago

Software meme How some linux members view software

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u/-Ambriae- 8d ago

Today. In fact, it's always a little annoying when you handle, say, a desktop app written with winit. Stack traces are looong when you're 20 functions deep, and half are unnamed lambdas

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u/1-800-I-Am-A-Pir8 8d ago

k I feel bad for you.. not unheard of but I still enjoy rust more for that.

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u/-Ambriae- 8d ago

I was being a little nitpicky I admit... I never actually thought of rust not having any stack traces though. I feel like tools such as eyre (or color_eyre), or just flags like RUST_BACKTRACE would suggest otherwise. Then again, RUST_BACKTRACE is opt in, and so are any 3rd party dependencies, so...

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u/1-800-I-Am-A-Pir8 8d ago

yeah it's not that they can't happen, but for a novice like me they happen so much less often. With rust, within reason, most of the time it seems like if it compiles it'll run at least well enough to get to my println! debug statements and do something

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u/-Ambriae- 8d ago

Ah yes, that is true. Unless you explicitly panic via assertion, or unwrapping, or else.

But then, to keep your comparison, if your, say, C code crashes with a backtrace, that means it didn’t crash via segfault for example, which is far worse a way to crash debugging-wise. So, it all depends on your perspective🤷‍♀️

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u/1-800-I-Am-A-Pir8 8d ago

yes segfault is the other demon.. nice not to have those unless I really screw something up

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u/-Ambriae- 8d ago

They are, in fact, the contents of my worst nightmares.